YEOVIL NEWS: Jail for offender who was caught by police after car chase

A MAN was jailed last week following his conviction for three offences of theft and one of dangerous driving when he had failed to stop for police following a report of shoplifting.

It led police on a chase down the A37 to Yeovil and it resulted in Benjamin Gullis, 27, of East Stoke, a long-time heroin addict, being arrested when the pursuit ended at Yeovil College on November 24 last year.

Police reported that Gullis was fortunate not to have lost control of the car along Mudford Road.

PHOTO - RIGHT: Benjamin Gullis.

He was charged with theft of some Lego on November 11, some meat two days later and also theft of money his mum had been collecting for a charity caring for disabled children back in April. In a letter to court, his mum said she had replaced the £100 from her own pocket.

He entered guilty pleas for the two shoplifting charges and for dangerous driving at Taunton Crown Court on Friday (January 30, 2015).

Judge David Ticehurst called Gullis a “thorough-going nuisance to society” because of his drug-taking and sentenced him to a total of two years and nine months.

He received 15 months for dangerous driving, three months for each admitted charge of theft and 12 months for the theft of charity money.

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